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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

THE SIGEP PATRIOTS PROJECT IN 2013

It
was quite a year for the SigEp Patriots Project (SPP). In 2014, we look forward
to continued growth and progress toward all of our goals, including having a
comprehensive list of Brothers who serve/served in the U.S. military, and
learning about them in order to honor and remember their accomplishments and
sacrifices.

In
2013,

* the SPP
holdings now contain the names of 4,386
SigEp Patriots – an increase of 19%
from last year; additionally, the SPP archives now contain over 1,740 photographs and 1,000 pages of Word documents;

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SPP t-shirt logo

* the only
Facebook group solely comprised of SigEp Patriots – SigEps Who Serve – is the
official SPP Facebook group and it grew by 20%
to 658 Brothers (click on the link if you are a current
or former military brother on Facebook;
if you aren’t on Facebook, SPP has a listserve to help you connect with other
SigEp Patriots);

* Care
packages were sent to SigEp Patriots serving overseas at an average of every
other week for a total of 26;

*36 editions of “This Week in SigEp
Patriot History” were posted on Facebook and www.sigepblog.org;

﻿﻿* in
August, SPP t-shirts were sold at Conclave in Dallas, to Brothers all over the
country and serving overseas, and continue to be sold on SigEpic’s website at https://www.interstated.com/store/sigepic;

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The SPP U.S. and SigEp flags flying aboard USS Nimitz (October 2013)

* the SPP Legacy Flag Project continued to coordinate the passing of a U.S.
and SigEp flag among SigEp Patriots serving down range; this year it stopped in Kuwait,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain and aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) deployed in the Persian Gulf – the first time the SigEp flag has ever flown aboard a U.S. Navy warship (send me an email if you are interested in receiving the flags);

*Veteran’s Day 2013 was observed by 15
undergraduate and alumni Brothers at Arlington National Cemetery where red
roses were placed at the gravesites of more than 30 SigEp Patriots buried there;